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mingabunga··on Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
One thing I'm surprised at, is how long it's taken for someone to actually solve this problem!
mingabunga··on Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
10x stronger than steel, and floats on water - sounds a bit like Dyneema. Best of luck!
mingabunga··on Show HN: Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app
Very cool, nice to be able to annotate at the same time. I'll be adding this in to our upcoming apps because mobile support is pretty hard
mingabunga··on Telegram Bypasses Lufthansa Inflight WiFi Paywall - how?
Perhaps using ICMP? Ping is usually not blocked I'd imagine
mingabunga··on Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations
I don't play golf or have any interest in it, but I was talking to my brother about him using golf carts on his farm as vehicles. I kept getting golf cart adverts in Facebook for the next month. Maybe it used location data to suggest we might be interested in the same thing, but it was a bit weird.
mingabunga··on We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance
Just to point out, the jaw size increase is from human growth hormone rather than steroids. I recall seeing photos of members of the Santa Monica track club athletes (Carl Lewis's club) and 7 out of 9 of their top sprinters had braces.
mingabunga··on Ask HN: How are you treating your child's internet addiction?
30 mins a day, that's nothing. Most little kids watch more tv than that daily - parent babysitter. Doesn't sound like you've got much to worry about. Have 4 kids, all watched hours of tv like there was nothing else in the world, and all turned out well so far. Just make sure there's some balance.
mingabunga··on Wasabi – Simple storage solution
Just came here to say I think the design of the website looks great, colors, spacing, type etc.
mingabunga··on Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories
It's not actually Google doing it, they're just funding it. Here's a better article https://www.recode.net/2017/7/7/15937436/google-news-media-r...
mingabunga··on Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories
That's where companies like Arria https://www.arria.com/ doing natural language generation step in so you can't tell the difference if it's machine or human generated. Well that's the promise.
mingabunga··on Show HN: IMAP, POP, SMTP Email Settings Lookup and JSON API
No, a bit more reliable - they're actual settings stored from users of one of our products. The next step is to build a system to query newly entered unknown domains.
mingabunga··on Show HN: IMAP, POP, SMTP Email Settings Lookup and JSON API
We've added about 20,000 verified email settings for many domains worldwide, so users can instantly get their email settings for IMAP, POP and SMTP by inputing their email address or domain. There's also a JSON API that works like this https://emailsettings.firetrust.com/settings?q=test.user@gma...
mingabunga··on The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax
Anecdotally, I do a lot of exercise and for a year I'd always wake up with a sore back (top of hips, either side of spine), or after sitting down. Physio eventually told me my hip flexors were really tight and that was the cause of the referred pain. 4 days of long stretches on those a couple of times a day and I'm good as! Crazy I went for a year with it irritating. If it helps someone, glad it did. Something like this (first result on google) http://www.stack.com/a/4-hip-flexor-stretches-to-relieve-tig...
mingabunga··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
Top affiliate marketers in the health, wealth, personal development and dating niche make $m per year, some in the 10's of $m.
mingabunga··on Sharing public keys between iOS and the rest of the world
Use QR codes?
mingabunga··on How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout
Related: Hosting in Aus is ridiculously expensive too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985137
mingabunga··on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree to a Job Interview
Things have changed in the last few months, it's all unmetered now. eg, here's my ISP https://voyager.nz/home and for $69 a month I can get fibre unthrottled with no data limits.
mingabunga··on Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
I've been IF for about 5 years now, eating once a day in the evening mostly. Have had one minor cold in that whole time, where as before I would get at least 3 pretty bad colds a year.
mingabunga··on SMTP Strict Transport Security Coming Soon to Gmail, Other Webmail Providers
Does this mean self-signed CA's won't work with MITM?
mingabunga··on Sleep Debt
I found this book to be extra helpful https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ISFAU1W/ref=oh_aui_d_de... Written by sleep expert Nick Littlehales who consults to major sports teams/athletes where they just have to get it right all the time. They even made custom beds to take with them when being away. Anyway, he talks about the 90 minute sleep cycles you mention amongst many other things.
mingabunga··on London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
Not really sorry, I've been using the same devs there for the past 9 years. They've been great
mingabunga··on London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
I've been using this for the past 6 months. It works really nicely and removes a lot of friction - it's just like sending money to another local account. I've paid people in Netherlands, Australia, Germany and they recently started allowing US$ paid to Ukraine, so I've been able to pay software developers there.
mingabunga··on Developers’ side projects
We share a lot in my company - I don't mind if the devs want to use some of the stuff we make and in turn they offer stuff they make to me. Works well and there's a lot of trust. we cover it legally too.
mingabunga··on New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
I'm from Christchurch which is about 100km away. Felt like a long rocking boat ride. Luckily it wasn't violent, unlike our 6.3 quake in 2011 which accelerated the city vertical by a foot, dumped it down and smashed everything.
mingabunga··on Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
Agree, most AV's get in the way of doing their job and are intrusive. As a developer we from time to time have problems with false positives or clashes with some AV's, so the customer gets annoyed and we have to contact the AV to get the false positive removed. Most seem to have a lot of bloat, but in the end get in the way.
mingabunga··on Ask HN: How to verify customer change of address for a defunct email address?
Thanks, seems about the only way.
mingabunga··on HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05B
Agree. Struggled with an Epson business inkjet for years and gained some pleasure from smashing it up in the end. Replaced with a Brother color laser and it was ridiculously easy to setup (I was expecting some pain) and works really nicely.
mingabunga··on Hololens Commercial Suite
It would be good if the video worked on my Windows 10 Phone...
mingabunga··on Show HN: EncryptUs, usable and free email encryption
Finished this yesterday. Works as a proxy encrypting/decrypting email for any POP3/IMAP email client, so the the setup and usability is really simple. Advantages - works with your existing email addresses/email client, no need to do anything different to send/receive email, everything stays local to your PC. Just Windows at the moment, but Mac and Linux coming soon, then mobile.
mingabunga··on Ask HN: Why do programmers suck at estimating hours?
I saw someone else comment another time, double your estimate of time and change the magnitude

2 weeks becomes 4 months.

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